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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 69, 22 March 1907, Page 2

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[BY XELBGRATH — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUNgDIN, This Day. The executive of the New Zealand Tramway Employees' Association has recommended that Mr. t{. Breen, secretary of the Dunedin Tramways' Union, should assist Messrs. W T. Young (Wellington) and A. Prosser (Auckland) in conducting the Auckland tramways dispute. . Speaking at the Education Board's meeting yesterday in support ot th« proposal to grant an additional ten per cent, to salaries paid to teachers in the back-blocks, Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., said tho causes lading to the difficulty of getting teachers wore two m number —(1) Not sufficient ,pay, was offered to attract good lads to the profession; (2) the fact that a colonial scale of salaries was adopted, and that the 6trenuous teaching of Otagp was not demanded >"n tho North. This caused a lot of teachers to go North, where they obtained the higher salaries for less work. This question had been persistently brought before Parliament by himself, and the records of the House would show that had it not been for the pcrpotual pressure put on tho department by himself ana others, the country schools would have had but few good teachers avail- ? j « **" w;ls amusing to those who had fought for the decent treatment of the country teacher to read the smug expressions made by Ministers of the good work they had done, when every far- ! thing for country schools had been forced from them at tho point of the sword. Mosgiel was thrown into a state of mild excitement yesterday morning by a report that its Mayor had been assaulted by one of the borough officials. It is alleged that the foreman of works and two men wore engaged in channeling in Cordon-road, when his Worship appeared on the scene, and is reported to have said that the work was not being done in a proper manner. Tho foreman, it is said, resented this Mayoral inferenco t and is alleged to have taken hold of his Worship and administered to him a severe shaking. The Mayor went away for police protection, but failing to find a local constable returned to the scene of his former trouble, with the result that hostilities were said to have been renewed.